Reuters: Get a grip, British PM Johnson tells France after submarine row
LONDON/PARIS (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told France on Wednesday to get a grip and give allies in the United States and Australia a break over a row about a trilateral nuclear submarine deal that tore up a separate French contract.
The new defence partnership between Britain, the United States and Australia was announced last week and will give Canberra access to nuclear powered submarine technology.
France accused U.S. President Joe Biden of stabbing it in the back and acting like his predecessor Donald Trump after Australia ditched a defence contract with Paris for the purchase of conventional submarines.
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WNU Editor: My advice to the British PM is to not mock the French.
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Mock the shit out of them, The French are bad allies, always have been. They are butthurt because they lost the deal to the Americans and British who have the better nuke subs
ReplyDeleteI'd rather have them as allies as we once did. I think we should continue to work with them in parts of Africa.
ReplyDeleteThe history books on this presidency should be insightful if there is no bias upon the author's part. I would much like to read about this decision to pull the plug on a previous agreement with France.